Chicken Coops, Sewage Treatment Plants are Hot Spots of Antibiotic Resistance (IMAGE)

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Chicken Coops, Sewage Treatment Plants are Hot Spots of Antibiotic Resistance

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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria most often are associated with hospitals and other health-care settings, but a new study indicates that chicken coops and sewage treatment plants also are hot spots of antibiotic resistance. The new study surveyed ecosystems of bacteria and their capacity to resist antibiotics in low-resource communities, including Pampas de San Juan de Miraflores, a densely populated slum outside Lima, Peru. The research, led by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published May 12 in Nature.

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Pablo Tsukayama

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